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SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1919,-
THE BRITISH COAL MINES.ng cool districts should achi be nat
MR. S. WEBB'S CASE FOR NATIONALISATION..
ministered by a district superinten. dent to be appointed by the Mirisary of Mines, and should be assisted by the local Coal Council. The execu tive management of each pit would be as at present in the hands of a EVILS OF COMPETITION FORMinistry of Mines with the advice rosponsible officer appointed by the PROFIT.
of the locat Mines Council. Ee should bare the counsel and criticis of a pit committee made up of the Mr. Skiner Webb, in evidence principal managerial officers of the before the Coub CommissİDET
mines and representatives of the eth- month, maintained thus national ployees. ownership cool shone wet the j necessition of the present position in
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THE WHITE MAN'S TEMPTATION,
SUICIDE AT SINGAPORE..
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PEACE CELEBRATIONS. there it proceeds.straight along to
THE MILITARY DISPLAY.
Arsenal Street and Praya East re turing to the Racecourse through Morrison El Road.
The subjecta for the tableaux in this procession have not been de ROYAL SALUTE AND, FEU-DE-finitely decaled upon. They are
JOLE.
being arranged in Canton and the description of them, with a brief hin- tory explaining their significance, tough it is ret experted it wili reach will probably be published kter, us in time for inclusion in the off- cial programane.
All arrangements for the Peace Celebration Famde at .30 in the morning on Saturday, July 18, have been completed; subject to change only if orders are received from the advises that 29 triumphal arches are The Street Decoration Committee War Office.
Hongkong is promised a capital two shiells bearing the names of being erected in Hongrong each with display taking into account the re-notable Generals and Admirals re- sources of the Mitary. By arrange spectively. ment with the Conanodore. 100, Naval ratings will take part in the pamile. Eighty of these will be from
H.M.S.Tamar."
SINGAPORE, July 10: The Chair: Your view is that! Mr. J. R. Brooke of the Govern- regard to the mines, On the questo parchuse the royalties, renta, andment Monopolies Department was tion of compensation he started leaves of colliery undertakings found dead in bed yesterday evening, that the amount of Government night at between 200 and 300 milholding & revolver, and with a bullet stock that woull be beard under lion pounds? nationalisation might be between
M. Webb: Yes, including also £200,000,000 and $800,000,000. A compensation to individuals whose [This telegram must have come by Minister of Mities should be directly services were dispensed with. Snail Express. It was despatched at H.M.S.Kent and 20 from JAPAN COMMENT ON responsible to the Etoure of Co-
on the shoukl have the assist. anywhere the rate of interest? Naken at this end at 11 pm. last The Chairman: Have you set out 1.30 p.m. on Thursday the 10th, and attoo of a Could Come and P Contecery to go into that night, reaching the China Mail office
HONGKONG JUSTICE. ¡present, because there is the alterna Mr. Sidney Webb, who is a mem.tive of ring 4 per cent. stock at this morning, triumphant but per- her of the Commission, intained & per cent. stock at 100. spiring. in the mot cause of the relative Wutever stocks would be issued inefficiency of the British coull supply should be sakable in the market, was its foundation of private profit-ous to produce the amount of cash making.
you are going to give. In the words of Sir Richard Red- The Chairman. Would the stock mayne, the present system of and be a general stock or a particularly mining and coal distribution waser-marked coul iwnet
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extravagnat and wasteful alike. Mr. Webb said he thought it would ns regalet han life and personalbe more profitable for the Govern development, the nation's coal, and to be it as part of a general the expense to the consutner. The Stock, and not to give it a fancy prosent syston-or absence of sys- name It morlidi Be desnible to! tem-made the management of coal have a special sinking fand in view, mining the marketing of the coal, of the wasting nature of the pro am i retail distribution the sport perry. He did not necessarily mean! of individual enterprise and crengeti, that the coal profits of the kingdom tion for profit without union or in would be a wasting asset except over
not public service.
of the position.
THE MINISTER OF MINES.
joy of life a few years ago, a sociable, Mr. Brooke was a man full of the popular man unlikely to feel the edium vitce. He would not be much over 40, if that. There is something. in the air down there that causes these suicides)
A GREAT OMISSION.
Mr. Clutton-Brock, in his new book, discusses what Christ meant by the words "The Kingdom of Heaven."
view onder khaki. Medals may be worn. Everyone will be dismounted. The troops will be dressed in re-
As is well known the parade will be held on the Hougkong kes Ckab ground.
part
The following are the details taking
Royal Navy, 100 rack and file. Royal Artillery, 90 rank and £le. Royal Engineers, 30 rank and file. 1/G.B. Manchester, 100 rank and file.
Hongkong Defence Corps, 100 and file..
Hongkong Singapore RGA rank and Ale
maak
60
74th Punjabis, 60 rank and file. 2/22ad Punjas, 120 rank and file. file on parade and a proportionate Thus there will be 670 rank and
number of officers.
The following is from the Jepan Chronicle:
Count de Toulouse Lautree de Savine, the would-be King of Bulgaria. is still being "moved on." The last place where he was endeavouring to take up his residence was Hongkong, where it was his intention to deliver the famous lecture. It appears that on his first arrival, his passport not having been vised by the British Consul at Shanghai, his fast place of residence, the authorities refused to admit him and he went to Canton and from there to Macao. At Macao
that he had some important military he wrote to the Hongkong authorities
information to communicate and being bestared by private gain and aking fund had been found by'n student who desires to know what there will be am datuchments of con proved of no importance, but each at the jostling ribi seeking or very long team, although a fixed Mr. Brock imagines an eager On the Mummy Fade ground to go to Hongkong. The informa permission was granted for him ownership could meet the necessities he very good finance in the cause of imagine that he turns to the Church Singapore R.G.A. with saluzing guns, to run had be not unfortunately
Only national hundred youre of experience not to the great phrase means.
Let us the Mountain Battery Hongkong the Count would have been allowed ¡such an enterprise as the coal mines of Englard, and is told that he willThey will fre a Royal Subate of 24 allowed his feelings to run away | Mr. Webb urged nationalisation as He thought there was financial fusti. find all that the Church officially as rounds and the Union Jack will be with him and got a local paper to the only means of adequately im-fiction for a special sinking fund
to say about its religion, all that is broken on arrival of E.E. the Acting interview him. This and the deli- proving the position of the miners
necessary for a member of it to be-Governor. After the 7th, 14th and very of his lecture were two of the with regud to housing, accidents. Refering to Mr. Webb's evidence How eagerly would he search in that ist rounds of the Royal Salute the prohibited things, and the poor lieve, in its Book of Common Prayer. special disease and infantile mortal as to the appointment of a Ministry book for the meaning of the Kingdom tops on the cricket ground will fire Count soon found himself on a ship ity, as the only means of dealing of Mines, the chairman asked if Mr. of Heaven! economically and efficiently with the Webb suggested that a
a feu-de-icie with their rifles. From beginning nation's coal resources, und as the should be appointed for a term of word about it."
Minister to end the Creeds do not say one troops will slope arms and then give for everywhere the Count goes there After the jou-de-joie is fired the fates are fighting against that lecture, bound for Shanghai. Apparently the only meurs of ensuring that couleurs like a judge. wria supplied to constimers
Nor do either: the Catechism or the
a Royal Salute by with
Mr. Webb: I at a democrat, and Thirty-nine Articles!
presenting is always something which prevents ruburity and at the lowest cret.
LYING. At the same tune the band the lecture being delivered. At the I think it is indispensable that the Referring to the question of hous-nation's coal mines in the last reort Mr. Brock,
will play the National Anthem, "The Thirty-nine Articles," says
same time the action of the Hong- ing, Mr. Webb maintained that it should be governed, like every other the Archbishops, the Bishops, and helmets and give three cheer for the sion because his passport was not in Following the Royal Salate the kong authorities is rather arbitrary, was unfair to throw the whole cast part of the nation's administration, the whole clergy, to avoid diversities King:
were agreed upon by troops will be ordered to remove First they refused the Count admis of housing of a special mining popol by the House of Commons, and tion on the ratepayers. Like extra know of no other way of securing it touching true religion.
of opinion and to establish consent
order and then they admitted him onlinary traffic on rouds, it was a than by a hustry responsible to stated to contain the true doctrine of the sahsting point. Having march-allowed him to remain in the Colony
The parade will next for fours because he had They are and march past His Excellency at tion to impart.
some informa-i ence of the industry bearing its own the House of Contions for the time the Church of England agreeable to ed past detachments will pass as long as he refrained from cer They (illegally) burton. What was required was abang. The Ministry ought to be God's word; and their purpose is to straight out of the cricket ground. prompt expenditure of something able to have the vote of ensure end the curious and unhappy differ- like ten or twelve millions sterling moved in the House of Commons, ences which have for so many hund Commanding attending the parade when he transgresses their entirely tain acts (which themselves were and the erection of new vluges at and for the whole Ministry to be red years. in different times and are allotted positions near the fag-illegal regulations.
Heads of departments and Officers not alleged) and they deport him the cost of a national housing fund brought down if the censure is car places, exercised the Church of provided by the mining industry as ried.
Really, what Christ. constitutional grounds, that any at- is mainly concerned with this King Warrant Officers Class 1, on the east others, indicting little boys for carry.
hoid that view very strongly on
with imposing enormous fines on "Now, since the religion of Christable for Officers and families and were obviously the innocent tools of A limited amount of room is avail-children for offences in which they teropt to secure independent ad dom of Heaven of His, and since it! ministration of mines, would mean was something He found very hard of the flagstaff. Other Warmat ing umbrellas in the streets, and that administration would be so curious and unhappy differences families on the west of the flagstaff. slavegirls. Hongkong justice is of an that the control of the nation over to express, it is to be expected that Officers and N.C.0's. and their condoning drunken
assaults on much weaker.
would have arisen about what He reader, finding a document designed ground. meant by it.
The public will be kept of the extraordinary quality. So our imaginary Cricket Ground and Murry Porade to end these differences, would con- fidently expect it to be much con- and Army Troops and Hongkong The Officer Commanding all Navy cerned with the meaning of the King-Defence Corps on the parade will be find? Elaborate statements of doct- dom of Heaven. But what, would he appointed by the G.0.0. rines about which Christ Himself said nothing at all, and refutations of errors that do not seem to be connect
a whole. But the subnuce that ang adequate schition of the housing priblem was dependent on nation-
Fation.
REGARD FOR HUMAN LIVER.
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Mr. Webb deuit in coneixerable detail with the question of accidents. It was not contented, he svid, that all accidents could be avoided, but owners representatives, M. Webb In reply to Mr. Cooper, one of the it was a grave fact that in private ad his schente of bioma heation ownership the pecuniary interests of wus his own suggestion. It had the colliery wareholders were per never been submitted to the Miners manently against the adoption in Federation. their entirety of the cafeguards that He considered that one of the the Hane Office recommended. Itment advantages to be derived from could not be denied that the 3,300 the nationalisation of coal mines was collieries Ind differed much amongst that we should more and more come themselves in the extent of her to regard the supply of coal as a medbank safeguards against noci public service. dents. The worst werp in the con
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The Royal Salute and fou-de-jois Mr. Cooper: You mean that the thing about Church history knows will not be fired. The former will ditions of safety provided far below State should make a reasonable pro- that, where Christians have been be imitated by a drummer of the the level of the best. He submitted fit. but that it was not easy to avoid the fiteer? not unconscionably pro-interested, there they have disputed. Manchester Regt.
Since they have not disputed about inference that a certain proportion Witness: I consider it should be the Kingdom of Heaven, since the bors and the same officers and men of the 3,000 accidents per week were
As far as possible the same num- run with all due regard to economy,
Articles do not find it necessary to directly attributable to the domin-but that profits should be only one cenounce one single error about it./ will take part in the rehearsal as: ance of profit-making motives, and of its objects and not the pretest it is clear that neither the Church will parade on July 10, that the miners had some ground for of them- their firm belief that the nationalised lisation of the coal supply would in it, although Christ Himself was He believed the nation for the heretics have been interested administration would make general prove financially prodtable, as the ore interested in it than in any- atal mines all the mechanical safe-Post Office had done.
thing else. guards already in use at the best of
We are now in a position to give Mr. Cooper questioned witness:
"The documents of the Church of aproximately the route to be taken them, render easier the adoption of concerning the gas supply of New England at least prove that that by the dah lantern procession, as at new safeguards, and diminish risk castle, and there was some indica- Church has shown no curiosity, present arranged, although it sub- by fesieing the strength of the pleation of a strong argument arising Christ's own mind and controlled Racecourse at 8 pm on Saturday, having arrived from the shove porta, that accidents cos: less than preven between Mr. Webo and his ques His conduct.
even, about the matter that possessed jeat to alteration. Starting from the
"INABA MARU”
Refering to the proposal to merge by remarking, "Please do not let reality," says Mr. Brock,
tioner, but Mr. Cooper out it short
19th inst., the procession will pass Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- collieries into one gigantic capital fus be disorderly."
"The Kingdom of Heaven is along Wanchai Road to No. 2 Police formed that their Goods are being trust, Mr. Webb urged that the re-
is a Station, turn up to Queen's Road landed and placed at their risk in the reality compared with which we East, paas the Wanchai Market, then Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and sult of this would be to commit both
ourselves are unreal until we are proceed to City Hall, turning down Godown Company's Godowns at Kow- the industrial and the domestic con- sumer to the tender mercies of the Webb said he hoped it would be ourselves are growing creatures."
In reply to further questione, r. Kingdom is a growing thing, as we turn along Chater Road, from Wat- sorted out mark by mark and delivery part of it.. For us, the to Des Voeux Head. Thence it will loon, where each consignment will be monopolet, who would have no in poable to make the appointmente terest other than to charge the utin a very much more unbiased way
Bon's Depensary to Butterfield and can be obtained as soon as the Goode most price the traffe would bear than a good many appointments are
Swire's office, then to the Praya and are landed. Any such proposal would meet with now made under private enterprise,
straight along to Wing Lok Whari.
Optional Goods will be carried on the most strenuous opposition from and to make them really free tro
The procession will rees along Wing unless instructions are given to the the Miners' Federation und
Lok Street, went to east, and then contrary before NOON, TO-DAY.. Labour party, and would be so uni-
out to Dee Veux Rood to the Post at the end of five years a national- Social Economics at Glasgow Univer Road Central, along to the Fire
Goods not cleared by July 17, Othoe... Thence it will Professor J. H. Jones, Lecturer on through Pedder Street to Queen's 1919, will be subject to rent.
proceed PLAN OF NATIONALISATION. ined coul industry would pay? The sily, said there was a strong prima Brigade Station (No. 5. Police the Godowns for examination by the Damaged packages must be left in Witness went in some detail into of a national coal supply would be was possible that nationalisation in Stand and Bonhos Bemné West. tives at an appointed hour on Tuesday witness replied that the chief object facie case for nationalisation, but it Station) and turn down to Bonbaru Consignes's and the Co.'s representa the question of compensation under to supply coal. the amount of Goverment stock a national_conl_chazity 2 Not-fed tier what were now regarded as Street to Queen's Roud West, return.teamer's arrival here, after which date f nationalisation, and estimated that Mr. Balour: You would run itment to the workers. They would will then proceed through Centre Presented, within ten days of the priotice would prove a disappoint Coming out in Deo Vrts Bend West and Friday. All claims must be that would be saved might be be charity. tween two and three hundred million the Exchequer would get a return in the work.
I think the Chancellor of grievances were in part evils inherensing along that thoroughfare past the they cannot be recognized. No claima pounds.
Hir. Webb went into details con-Office at the present time.
from it se he does from the Post In the case of Scotined, the wit Station, where it turns up to Wall. left the Godowns..
Ko Shing Theatre to the Fire Brigade will be admitted after the goods have cerning the plan of mangerzent under a nationalisation scheme. At Mr. Weth was interrupted.
At this stage the examination of should be nationalised. The Scot again to Queen's Road Cential ness suggested that the industry ington Street, descending thence the hand of the whole administra-. Mr. Graham Waile, Professor of from others, but it also seemed fairly
tina cogifield was not only remote through D'Aguilar Street. From bion and directly responsible to the Political Science, University of Lon-representative in the sense that it House of Commone there must be don, said that one of the most ob contained old and costly mines te a 31inister of Mines. The Minister vious administrative dangers of well as new and prosperous ones and should have the counset and critic-nutionalation me the possibility of any seams yet to be opened. The ism of a permanent authoritative the mining service getting into poli- South Wales Sold for technical rea Cood Council, and the principal tics, and posts and promotions being some presented a more difficult pro branches of the Ministry of Mines given as rewards for political work. bem, and he suggested it should be should be those dealing with safety Another danger was that the service controlled by Mining Board, on and health research, scientific cost- might become corrupted in the ord which equal representation should ing equipment and stores, and the mary secse, and put he sold by be given to employsa, work-people, alocation of the coal supply. Exist those who had the newer to fit them. Ideaters, and the State.
the
political bias.
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Mr. Balfour: Do you think that.
verally unpopular as to being down the strongest Government.
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CASE FOR NATIONALISATION IN SCOTLAND
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